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Weather Tonight and Tuesday, rain; strong southeasterly winds, Temperature Maximum, 46. ll CORRUPTION, SAYS STEM WORTH ONLY $5 Last 34 Hours Minimum, 39. Today noon, 4L On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffies at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress Marc »~ VOLUME 23 SEATTL| E, Ww ASH., MON ‘DAY, JA YUARY 31, 1921, 1921 | Stop Knocking. f Team Work. We're All Right. Says C. H. Lilly. H. WLLY, pict Old-timer and founder of the ee Hi. Lilly Co. flour, feed and B, sizes up the outlook bined fm characteristic fashion, Fear 1921 starts off with | Pe of business down to} conditions than have; for the preceding five years. | Words, while we do not prices on stocks, or labor, we do know th paying of ‘what foes down on the head or on {is generally true. MOSTLY BACK LEVEL NOW | Manufacturers, jobbers and) f got their comedown in 1920 fell by the wayside. The! ones are now on what is) floor, or near there, at ) OF ready to begin work under MW conditions. Those who did ) their comedown in 1920 receive theirs in this 1921, as all must share in Hon of the lows, waste and of the late world LAR) resque future looks brisht te moe, | ¢ _foad seems clear and t. We will have our troubles, and must meet them as when renched. We and use our best ef.) the problems of the me very poor policy a ne. Poe: weak points. Better spend | talking of the strong § and good features of our lo, ‘We all make mistakes, and Fipnen, Dut why advertise the| 0 OUP friends, enemies, com- | or rivals? ¥ RAILWAY STRUGGLES ON 1 1920 we yelled ourselves | ‘Bbout the conditions of our pal railway, and still we hear carried over into the new spasmodic groan ts in- im fury, that of the big on the Skagit river. car purchase was without ste, as it turned out, iy. experts “claim that the scheme mentioned will be worse. In each case, of course, ‘Were points of merit, but the point ix and has been that we mot afford to shoulder either Both of the burdens fre told by some wise ones our contracts, and if im begins we know not where p end will land us on city fi- Taxes are much too high / to Interest the prospect turer who might care to A sane bus his means bis writ lo: and en in our midst. ‘Hives within ) mot repudiate have lived continu y for 32 years, ha the country from to Mexico, Pacific Boros the country or # lines, crossed over to ack and forth from the « Wales to Constantinople, the ck | i, Asia Minor, (ireece, the Med m and returned to Seattle. FAMILY QUARRELS: ie SEATTLE SPIRIT Sound and the Northwest look better to me on my than any other place dl We are our own worst and must cease internal quarrels, have mere team rr) together and again re- e Be to-cattea ‘Seattle Spirit.’ | We might then get those things We Gre entitied to have and ime to go after the goods bring them into our midst. | fature has given ux more good to work with than most on earth. Why not make the advantage? We listen 40 the fool theories of rad md we have them with us at |. They bob up whenev Hsteners. p “We have in our midst thove wel in dragging down x ood a 4 or belittling the he Of others. Don't allow such rac tied . break down men and institutions swe now have with us and know worthy of staunch support Yt i an error, in my opinion drop old friend» In other qords, to spend all our time hunt, for the stranger from afar off| gna give our proven friends long| With us the cold bh ¢Our Northwest Jooks fine. Stop and attend to busi east rail uTOpe. of too als all er a4 to} 1 right 1921} mity | Le TRIAL OF WONG POY WING! dope charges ix set for March 22,! fn Aederal court He pleaded not guilty Monday belore,Judg THIEF AND | Bullets Whiz | short, | one | way area in east | from BOY FIGHT GUN BATTLE | as Youth Bravely Defends Home; Wasn't Scared “It Td only got him—" Andrew Green, ted what wor my hands on 14, Monday exhib- have happened at that stage in his battle with the burglar in his home, at 1727 Broad way, by putting his fists close to} | gether in front of him and shaking | them violently like a fountain clerk | mixing a drink. | Only Andrew was imagining that the burglar’s neck and not a soft} irink concoction, was in the grip of | his hands. FIGHTS DUEL WITH BURGLAR IN HIS HOME Andrew, who still wears short trousers, and ts in the eighth grade} at the Lowell school, routed a bur. glar in @ gun duel when he caught the burglar “egg: alte the Green home late Sunday af Andrew bravely canes Monday that he waen't afraid during the) lfight, but admitted that several electric tremors ekidded along his spine, when the burglar sent a bullet whizzing past his ear ! | | The outcome of the duel showed that Andrew didn’t allow his spinal agitations to “get his goat.” He fired right back at the burglar with| his father’s gun, and drove him from the house. RETURNS TO FIND PROWLER IN HIS HOME Andrew returned from a show Sunday afternoon, and found no one home. He decided to go to a nearby store for « Five min = later he returned to find that someone was now home, the someone being slender dark burglar. The dark thief was making himself very | much at home by investigating the interior of a chest In the hallway when Andrew entered the front door At sight of th dodged out of t into the basem Andrew ren his father’s revolver. Ta jump, he the gun stairs again BULL WHINES PAST ANDREW'S HEAD Altho it y dark mbered that in jonet was a .38 king three steps at hed the upstairs, on running down-| up came was growing dusk, and corner hid an armed burglar, according to Andrew's view he his search into the c ursue H uched close to the furnace There, er Without a word, the thief fired shot. Th bullet whined past Andrew's ear and ended its deadly song when it thudded into the wall. Andrew drew the trigger of his father's gun one and the burglar jumped, as tho h But he was not, another corner of the basement When Andrew aimed and pulled the trigger again, the gun did not fire He found that there had been only one shell in the gun. Andrew ran upstairs, expecting at any moment to get a bullet in the back from the burglar. He immediately phoned to the police, While he was waiting for his connection he heard the burglar escaping out of a basement dow Motorcycle off falled to find him “Andrew did get a little acared, but not until afterwards,” Mra, proudly Monday ‘SEATILE PORT ‘| AWARDED LAND WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.—The port of Seattle in the supreme court its fight the a valuable strip of water and onty ran to wir ers Green | today won to obtain ghts to waterway, Seattle harbor, claimed by the Oregon Washington ‘The company brought of Seattle order railroad company ult against the port to obtain id to construct a water | it the only the ap some seway to keep iiled-in land which s claimed that construction could be made on permit from the state and payment of »pecial rental taxes, equired. It | industry's re | conviction res" Film Stars Brilliant Au J\aoe IRVIN S COBB LOS ANGELES, actors’ star wanes. | The authors’ riven! This iw the situation in the movie| Producers are practically convince | ed that * # the thing.” Their |t upon the suceess of | star on ne wtor nt recent photopl IN TWO b= = Tragedies at Pri Providence, R.. |., and Hoboken A fire ynial caused HOBOK N. J., Jan. 91 destroying the Hotel Ce the death of 12 today. Thr burned. The with persons tion of the earty | persons here others morg were ues are ¥ attempting identifica vietims, PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Jan. %1- firemen w killed and 19 rs injured while fighting a fire in heart of the business section here vu, Arthur Cooper, Thomas jaher, hose men; two unidentified. he fire, of unknown origin, start ed in a bowling alley and swept an entire block on Washing mouth sts. The five were fighting t axe from li when the wall caved in, p them into the heart of the fir were killed outright and th two died en route n hospital, crow who w to MISSING BABY Detectives the Joseph B. Hand, His wife, of 620 N delphia, asked the ct to locate 1} waterfront were on trail of diver, here today 46th wt. Whila- ef of police He has been recently by | mall yeen on the “ SUPT, ROSS IS Tuesday Last Day to | : REAPPOINTED The reappointment of J. D. Ross ag superintendent of the city light ing way sent by Mayor Caldwell to I the city council Monday for approval, Jan, 31.—The/and st instances ith powerful plots | scenario yard most BOY, 17 YEARS, ing | night, Max Lyons, 17, his father, Ch known hot the girls instantly *™t | School Code Up _ WIFE SEEKS HER | meeting of th Blanc’s cafe T Henderson ipal railways thors Taviing to “Movies "ELINOR GLYN ] ty WEIMAN mg casts without stara, For )cast of “Anatole,” being completed at Humoresque. the Hollywood studio So stars’ aularies are being slashed. | Players Lasky Productions are being reduced in| In this one production are many numbers. who have been singly starred: Wal But more attention ts being paid Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda 0 acenal | Hawley, Agnes Ayres, Elliott Dexter, Cons for| Hebe Daniels, Theodore Kos | Monte Blue and Theodore Roberts, MURDERER IS STILL HERE Hearing on New Trial Mo- tion Delayed tly better pay riters, Already living ft the Low Angeles are such fa Elinor Glyn, Sir Nina Wilcox Putnam, and Edward/ authors as t Parker Maughan mernet additions within a few are Avery Hopwood, . Joseph nrad, Sir Henry Arthur Jones, | 2 Welman and Irving Cobb. Meanwhile Sir James Barrie, Rud and Rex Beach continue pling movie material » Loos, America's rio writer, thre fame of Mary Pickford. tara are fallen from the 1 Is shown by the fore- t Because Prove |delayed by the grand jury Bandit John Schmitt, convicted Inst week for the murder of three Seattle acens atens lipse the How the ne-star producti | policemen, wag still held here Mon. day. It was expected that the motion for a new trial would be heard late In tho afternoon. This, it Is almost | certain, will be dented. |be sentenced to hang, and will start | |soon afterward for the penitentiary at Walla Walla. WALL STREET KILLS FATHER HILLSDALE, Mich., Jan, $1.—Dur a family quarrel late Saturda shot and kille Lyons, well ster EH eman. It is alleged the father threatened lives of his wife and two little The boy fired both barrels of a shotgun, and the father fell, dying WASHINGTON, Jan. 31,—Inves- igation of Wall street was di To Muny League", by Representative Baer, Report of the special committee on). Dakota. He introduced a res- he proposed school administrative | oiition charging Wall street has nde will be heard at the weekly billions of dollars out of the Municipal league at) visortunes and miseries of the sday noon. ‘The pub-| wong within the last five years, |demanding a complete congressional investigation anded ic in invited HIEVES FIND HIDDEN CASH POLICEMEN SHOT uve. N. KE, thieves found the cache ITROIT, Mich, 31.—Three ast night Jan bandits brokerage office of William T. Mar tin, in the heart of Detroit's business | district, shot and seriously wound lth police detect! jth office as the robbers were | ing. carrying with them $13,000 in ponds Redeem Old Tokens With 912,000 old car fare tokens vutatanding, worth $19,500, W. D. superintendent of muni repeated his warning last day omed. Monday that Tuesday is the m which they may be rede utor Douglas was| | report, Schmitt will | IS DENOUNCED fighting thelr way from the| The Seattle Star h 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 WURY 000,000! om x ¢ LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN WIFE DESCRIBES KIDNAPINGTRACTION DEAL Tumble, But Authors | Rise SEATTLE cuoxe py | FORCED ON CITY — SEIZED HER Mother of “Babe Becomes Hysterical on Reaching Home After Rescue BY WALTER J. HURST LO8 ANGELES, Jan, 21.—With |but a minute in which to cuddle her laughing 16-monthold babe, who | cooed merrily at his mother’s return, |Mra. Gladys Witherell, rescued | from Kkidnapers early today, was or. |dered to bed this morning and her room was closed to everyone except ing her husband and her nurve. It was understood she had been | eigen an opiate, As the cavalcade | of officers’ utomoblies and ambu- jlances which had been taken to the lonely Santa Ana canyon cabin, where Mra, Witherell had been held captive ainee last Tuesday, returned to Lon Angles today, the pretty young wife lay in the arms of her husband, O. 8. Witherell, and told of her expertence. TELLS HER HUSBAND OF TERROR RIDE Here, in part, ds the story, as she related it to her husband and as it was retold this morning by him: “The gray-baired man came to the houne and told me I was wanted by a@ woman who was hurt in an acc dent and who was calling for me thought it was my husband's moth. er, who was to have dinner with me that evening. I hurried away with the man “We entered the machine outside. As soon as I was seated, another at | the wheel opened up the motor at! reckless speed. I thought nothing of that, however, feeling that he was hurrying me to the side of my hus- band's mother. “Théy hadn't gone far whén I told the driver to stop. |1 was beginning to get frightened tion from where I had been told the accident happened. The driver kept |right on speeding. I began to strug gic and Floyd Carr se told me to be quiet—that everything KIDNAPER CHOKED HER. UNCONSCIOUS 1 screamed ‘Murder? at the top of my voice, but there was no one in |sight to hear me, I kept kicking and fighting but he was too strong jand held me tight while the other jman kept the car running at high speed. “When T continued my cries for help the man holding me put a hand Jabout my throat and choked me. I never will for the awful sensa- tion as I was rendered unconscious inally, 1 regained consciousness. I was lying in the bottom of the car I did not move, remaining still and trying to think of what to do. I de jcided to make one more attempt to Slowly and and opened the door of as a flash I But the man and dragged 1 kept of escape reached up |the car. Then quick {swung my feet out | clute! my shoulders me back into the tonneau. kicking and screaming. I lost one my pumps, a black satin one, |CHOKED SECOND TIME; BOUND HAND AND FOOT “Then 1 was choked again. Again I felt that awful sickening sensa- tion. When I again regained con sciousness the car was stopped. I lay still and gathered from the con versation that a tire had blown out. They had paused to fix it, The car started up and soon we stopped alongside another machine, “Phen they bound me hand and foot. They took the belt off my coat and strapped my anki@ with \it. My hands were fastened behind |my tack with a rope. They threw {me in the bottom of the automobile and 4 away. The other auto. mobile trailed along behind us thru the mountains to the cabin.” Before she could describe had happened in the cabin Witherell's overwrought nerves: gave way, Hysteria followed the composure she had maintained thru the frightful five days and six nights. She crumpled after she had entered her home and gathered i} Jack in her arms. of her condition | nee y to give her an_ opiate. » was taken upstairs and put to for the first untroubled sleep since last Monday night The young wife was disheveled and tears were coursing down her | (Lurn to Page 7, Column 5) what M it was e se” Business Methods Are Charged by County Probers In scathing denunciation of what it calls loose and inefii- U. S. REPRESENTATIVES CREDITED WITH SALE city council and the United, States government represen-| tatives, ending in a sugges-| tion by the traction company | od me and) cautiously I] officials that the traction \company might be willing to sell the street railway lines} to the city of Seattle for | $18,000,000, followed by an| offer by Mayor Hanson on, |behalf of the city of Seattle, | to purchase the lines for the} |sum of $15,000,000 in utility | | bonds. “We find that the government rep. resentatives present at this confer. | jence took to themselves the credit of Famow#|And he was going in another direc- | for having brought about the sale of | the street railway system to the oy of Seattle for $15,000,000. 'SHIP BOARD OFFICERS | LAY DOWN ON CITY | | “Krom September 6 up to October 19, 1918, there were many confer: | ences between the traction officials jand the city officials endeavoring to| adjust details and to determine ex jactly what property or properties | were to be turned over to the city.| The adjustment of these matters} was largely brought about by at |torneys for the United States ship-| |ping board emergency fleet corpora-| tion, and again, as during the time jprior to September 6, whenever it| jappeared that the maypr and city | councilmen of Seattle were inclined |te withdraw from the transaction, | |pressure was brought to bear by | United States government officials | |to force the deal thru, the pressure | jbeing always exerted upon the city | |of Seattle and never upon the trac-| tion company.” JURY FIGURES THE COST OF SYSTEM Speaking of the actual cost of the system to the city, the jury has this to say: | “We find that ff the elty of Seattle completes the purchase of the street car lin cording to the terms of the| contract, that the people will $15,000,000 principad and in interest, a total of $ in the same period of time it will! be practically necessary to reproduce | the system, “In addition to these figures the! city will have lost, by reason of the fact that under the ownership of the| Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co., 2 per cent of the gross receipts | were paid to the city, which no} longer will be paid, in a period o@20 years a sum estimated at over 750,000, and will have lost in the ne period, in taxes, formerly paid by the traction company, approxi in all a and in this | connection it should be borne in| mind that by the terms of the con tract the city has bound itself to} urche power from the Puget | Sound Traction, Light & Power Co,, until such time ag the city sees fit) to buy the substations now belong | ing to the company.” WANT CITY TO SI EQUITABLE RELLIEE The contract is found by the! jury to be incapable of perform ance, It says | “The city has taken over a} property which was earning less} than two per cent on $15,000,000 (Turn to Page U, Column 7) It explains the actual transaction in these words: “On September 6, 1918, a conference was held lasting — practically all day and into the night, in the between traction officials, the mayor and mem! The Grand Jury Report The grand jury report on the street railway deal is Mayor Caldwell's report—nothing more and nothing less, It takes the figures of Caldwell’s engineer to estimate the value of the car line system, and these figures may be right, or they may be wrong. The system may have been worth only five millions, or what is probably more correct, it was worth twice that amount. Let us concede that it was not worth $15,000,000. But the jury, despite the free hand given the mayor to prove otherwise, and despite Burns detectives, finds there was no corruption. We stand, then, after the mayor's investigation and after the grand jury report, exactly where we stood before. The city probably made a bad bargain, but it did that willingly—aye, with the consent, or at least without the protest of even Hugh M. Caldwell himself. The pres- ent mayor, and the then cor- poration counsel, knew the de- tails of the transaction as it was presented at the time; he was on the job when the city made the $15,000,000 offer; he was inter- viewed on the bonds that were to be issued; he spoke optimistically then; he had lunch with some of the U. 8. shipping board repre- sentatives whom the jury de- clared used “pressure” on the city to purchase the system. For the bad bargain, Mayor Caldwell must bear blame equally with other officials—but blaming any- one for the deal ut this stage of the game is a useless thing un- less it is done for political propa- ganda. The entire city was to blame. We all wanted the rail- way. We were sorely harassed by the insufficiency of service given by the private company and the hopeless outlook for the future. And we voted to buy by a four to one yote, The grand jury report does not reveal one fact that had not been known before—not one fact that the mayor did not know be- fore he spent $8,000 or so in “in- vestigation.” Now let us get down to brass tacks. Crying over spilled milk won't help the least bit. What we must do now is to see that we don’t make the deal worse than it is by bad man- agement and by “political’* op- eration, We have had enough innuendo and enough camou- flage about the purchase, But what do we know about the aw tual management and operation of it? Is it being run ag well as it ought to be? ‘That's far more important to us now, Why is the system losing more money this year than last, for instance? What are the figures? What are the facts of the mo- mont? We know the facts of the paSt, and the grand jury merely corroborated what everyone knew without an investigation, What we need now is pitfless: publicity of present conditions, amen WHO BYU.S.,1S CLAIM. Valuation Made = Mayor’s Engineer cient business methods, the King county grand jury, in its report to the superior court Monday, found that the street railway lines were worth not more than $5,000,000 when they were sold to the city for $15,000,000. The grand jury reviews the entire history of the trans- action and submits evidence to show that extraordinary pressure was brought upon the city during the war period, when people were not disposed to consider carefully. It specifically finds, however, that there was no corruption x j 's office, of the